Sheridan Serial Number Identification
Sheridan Air Rifle Manual
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They were priced at $110 for the single shot and $125 for the mag. tube repeater...both were .22's (so the amg. tubed repeater used lead balls...they still make them). Should have seen if I could pick up the pair for less than $100 each. were in good shape, the stocks were a bit dull and scratched, but the metal color was still there (not 'blue' as they are made of bronze...so has to be some kind of phosphate-gray). I have an excuse...althongh after the fact, I wish I had stopped to dicker...I had just picked up a new O/U 12ga. and was heading out of the door. Besides the .22 and .177 single shots, there were also .177 and .22 mag. tubed repeaters...and a smooth-bore (BB) .177 single shot. Go back farther and the pump system worked differently, pumping the same way, but rtunning a rod that when in and out of the front of the bottom tube. Go back to the first ones, and there is not pump...just a t-ended rod that came out of the bottom tube...most people stood on the rod's handle and pumped the rifle up and down. Those early ones had a different trigger system as well. For once the old joke was true: the harder (and faster) you pulled the trigger, the harder the gun shot. A slow squeeze would let the compressed air out slowly...so vow vel....a fast hard squeeze let it all out at once...so high vel. |
Sheridan made their first air rifle model in March 1947 so I don't believe yours could be from the 1930, more likely it was made sometime after 1972.
- A Brief History of the Sheridan Air Rifle By Andrew Leung. Click the ad to visit this advertiser, View All Advertisers On This Page. Almost everyone must have said the words: 'boy, I can build it better than this!' This was a response typical of people who after discovering that mass-produced products did not live up to the expectation you have.
- The Sheridan Super Grade was a.20 caliber (all Sheridans were.20 caliber.) multi-stroke pneumatic air rifle.It had a large cast and machined aluminum receiver, bronze barrel and pump tube, walnut stock with Monte Carlo cheek-piece, ball-type valve mechanism, adjustable trigger and peep sight.
- Archer Airguns has a growing range of parts and accessories to fit the Sheridan Blue Streak CB9 and Silver Streak C9 air rifles. These parts kits fit most multi-pump Sheridan.20 caliber air rifles manufactured since 1995.
- Sheridan acquired Benjamin prior to the 1990s, creating the Benjamin Sheridan Company, which produced air rifles. This company was purchased by Crosman in 1991. All Benjamin air rifles produced after 1992 list the month and year the rifle was produced in the serial number.